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It is hardly a surprise to learn the R & A has ‘blacklisted’ Trump Turnberry from hosting any further Open Championship while bearing the Trump name. It’s 14-years ago Turnberry last hosted golf’s oldest major with the staging of the 2009 Open won by Stewart Cink when he defeated Tom Watson in a play-off. Trump purchased the Turnberry complex five years later and with strong suggestions then in 2014 that while Turnberry was now under Trump ownership  it was off the Open Championship ...

Jon Rahm did not hold back his feelings when asked ahead of this week’s Memorial if he will miss not having fellow Spaniard Sergio Garcia as his Ryder Cup team-mate later this year in Rome. Rahm and Garcia were unbeaten team-mates, winning three-and-a-half points out of four, in a hapless European Team that were simply out-gunned by a superiour USA side in the 43rd Ryder Cup two years ago at Whistling Straits laid out along the shores of Lake Michigan.   However, when seperated both Rahm ...

Padraig Harrington has added support in his call that would see the use of rangefinders other than in PGA of America sanctioned events. Allowing the use of rangefinders had been raised earlier this year following the snail-like pace of some of the leading PGA Tour players including top tortoise Patrick Cantlay and more-recently the present World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler. The American duo have been lambasted on social media as twoa of the slowest players competing on the Tour yet nothing is done about ...

Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson remains quietly-confident of a first win this new season after a horror take-off and also a horror landing on day two of the 103rd KLM Open. The Bearsden golfer posted a second straight one-under 71 to be just inside the top-40 at two-under heading to the weekend rounds on the host Bernardus course at Cromvoit to the south-east of Rotterdam. Spaniard Jorge Campillo also signed for a 71 to remain in the lead and two shots clear at 10-under from Italian Renato Paratore ...

The news just gets better and better for PGA Championship crowd favourite Michael Block with confirmation he’s become a client of WME Sports Management. The 46-year-old, who stunned the sports world with a ‘slam dunk’ ace during last Sunday’s final round of the PGA Chjampionship, joins the likes of Jordan Spieth, Patrick Cantlay, Padraig Harrington and Francesco Molinari as a client of WME “WME Sports is proud to announce that we have signed Michael Block, the breakout ...

Michael Block did not have to wait long with confirmation he received an invitation to contest this week’s PGA Tour Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas. Block, 46, endeared himself to sports fans around the globe making an ace in his final round of last Sunday’s PGA Championship playing in the company of four-time major winning Rory McIlroy. The California-based club pro eventually finishing T15th to not only earn a cheque for $288,000 but also an automatic entry into next year’s ...

Former Masters champion Sergio Garcia is all set to contest a 24th consecative US Open after posting back-to-back 66s at a sectional qualifier in northern Dallas to qualify for next month’s championship in suburban LA, Garcia, 43, shared fourth place among the eight leading qualifiers following two rounds of the Bent Tree and Northwood courses to the north of the Texas city. Included in Garcia’s afternoon 18 holes was a opening bogey but with the Spaniard then posting a 14th hole eagle ...